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Off-Topic => Off-Topic: Talk about anything you want. => Topic started by: kitkatz on May 17, 2008, 10:31:18 AM
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This morning I took my cat Nanny to the vet. She has been losing weight and was acting strange. Not eating, not drinking. She was 18 years old.
She is gone from me now. I had her put to sleep this morning. I was with her when she went. She was purring right up until the end. I knew she was gone when the purring stopped.
The vet was very kind as were his techs. They gave me time before and time after with her.
I am in tears. All of our cats are getting older and we are losing them slowly. I will tell you all some stories about Nanny when I am done crying.
I cannot see the keyboard right now.
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So sorry for your loss, pets are like famiily. I dread the day when my pets time will come. At least Nanny lived 18 good years and passed with you by her side.
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Nanny cat
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kitkatz I'm so sorry. :grouphug;
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Awww Kit, I am so sorry. Nanny was a little purring machine! You took great care of her - 18 years is amazing!
HUGS for you my friend. :cuddle;
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So sorry about your loss Kit. :grouphug; What a pretty cat she was.
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I have stopped crying, I think.
Let's see... I found Nanny up under the spare tire of our three-quarter ton pick up. I heard a kitten crying and tracked the sound to the truck. I crawled underneath it and pulled her out by the scruff of her neck. She was around four to six weeks old. Tiny kitten. At the time I already had a cat who was nursing kittens, so I added this kitten to her brood. Mama cat accepted her as one of her own. Nanny was quite cat.
When she was younger she would sit in my house plants and killed them all. Her name went from Little Sh** to Conannette the Destroyer. We called her Conannette for years, then the nickname went to Kono, then to Nannette, then to Nanny. Yes, we named the cat then nickname them..
She went to live with my parents for a few years. My Dad fell in love with the little grey kitten and adopted her from us. She came back to live with us when my parents moved to Hawaii.
She became my daughters cat. She slept with them and loved them. If I yelled or hollered at my girls for anything I would have a cat at my feet or up on a counter meowing at me to stop. It always cracked me up and I had to laugh. It was one way to stop me from yelling. I learned to holler quietly.
Life is full when you have animals. I miss her.
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Oh, Kit, I am so sorry. It is so hard to lose the pets we love.
When i lost my Garfield, it took 2 kittens to replace him.
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Oh, kit, I am so sorry about your Nanny. I wish there was something I could do to make you feel better. :cuddle;
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Awww - so sorry about your fur-baby, Kit! :grouphug;
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:'( :grouphug; So sorry about your sweet Nanny.
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Kit I'm so sorry :grouphug;
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So sorry, Kitkatz. :cuddle; :grouphug;
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Oh - Nanny was such a beauty. I am so sorry Kitkatz. I know how hard it is to lose a pet and my thoughts are with you.
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I am sorry to hear this Kit, it's dreadful to lose a pet, she was a beauty and sounds such a character. Sending you a cuddle :cuddle; and my love.
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So sorry, Kit. Sounds like she was quite the character. 18 years and it was still much too soon. You are in my thoughts.
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KK *tight hugs* from me and Celeste.... 18 years is a ripe old age for a cat and clearly your saving her treated her well over the years. That's such a gorgeous story about her meowing at you to stop yelling at "her people" (your daughters). that's just wonderful.
She knew you loved her from the minute you saved her and she's up in kitty heaven purring looking down on you knowing how much you gave her in her long life.
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I found abetter picture.
Nanny and Maria
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They're both beautiful :grouphug;
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Sorry to hear about Nanny ,its not long since i lost one of my best friends so i know how much it hurts. :cuddle;
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I'm sorry. I know how much it hurts. :grouphug;
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I thought I read and replied to this thread.
Sorry to hear about your loss kitkatz. When I read the story it made me think of how the first time I had to deal with a loss of any kind and it was my mom pet cat that who died while suffering from something unknown and died in my arms the day I took her to a new vet. It is rough to loose a pet, but you will recover. You were able to spend some quality time with her and afterwards of her passing which is something to cheerish.
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i'm not a cat person (they make me sneeze) but i do know how you feel. hope it's going a little easier.
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My Siamese walks around the house crying for Nanny. She would bug the crap out of Nanny and they would play fight. I think she thinks I took her away.
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Ten Years Ago, we put the Only Animal, I ever Loved to Sleep. I Still miss that Dog.
It's Okay to Cry.
Peace to You.
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Aww Kit I am so sorry about your nanny cat, Its a family member, plain and simple.. :'(
Kim
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A very beautiful cat. So sorry about your loss. What a nice long life, though.
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Putt Putt was a black cat I had for 20 years she looked just like your Nanny
now I have had Slugger for 13 - 14 years and she looks just like Nanny but Slugger has no tail
Putt Putt died and I felt her last heart beat
I could not go down the cat food section in Krogers for a very long time
I never understood why people would have a black cat until I got to know my sister's cat ( long time ago)
now black cats rule
I hope all is better for you.
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We still miss her around here. I think our Siamese still looks for her to play with her.